The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay. Volume IV: September 1841-December 1848.
by MACAULAY, Thomas Babington. Edited by Thomas Pinney
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Tamworth, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1977). First edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo, brown buckram, pp. xii, 407; frontispiece illustration. Indexed. Front free endpaper with bookplate indicating the item was purchased for the now defunct Disraeli Project at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Canada, and with pencilled purchase information neatly in the gutter of the contents page. Else fine in dust jacket, showing rubbing to the head of the spine. Now in an acid-neutral mylar dust jacket protector.
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- Bookseller
- Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20615
- Title
- The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay. Volume IV: September 1841-December 1848.
- Author
- MACAULAY, Thomas Babington. Edited by Thomas Pinney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1977). First edition.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nineteenth Century Literature;
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Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
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About the Seller
Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Tamworth, Ontario
About Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Buckram
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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